Statement Of Meghan Purvis, U.S. PIRG Environmental Advocate
“Today 25 PIRGs and state Environment groups are releasing analyses that clarify the local impacts of the Bush Administration’s proposals to gut the Toxics Release Inventory Program.
These analyses prove that leaving the public in the dark about chemical
releases of toxic chemicals affects local communities first.
EPA
Administrator Johnson’s proposals put public health in jeopardy.
Twenty-one years after the world’s deadliest industrial accident in
Bhopal, India, attempts to weaken the program signed into law by
President Reagan are ill advised. With 25 state PIRG and environment
group releases on the local impacts of gutting this vital program today
we hope to alert the public to this egregious proposal.
The
Bush Administration has built a legacy on letting polluters contaminate
our environment and our bodies – allowing more mercury into our air and
water and the oldest, dirtiest power plants to spew more pollution from
their smokestacks. Now EPA Administrator Johnson is pursuing a policy
to keep the public in the dark about the environmental and public
health devastation they are causing.”
